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D1re_W0lf does it work if you add the app to the home screen?

Paweł said in Native Push Notifications Support for NodeBB: > julian maybe it is worth to check this behavior in Browserstack?

Yes, this is a good idea does browser stack have support for push notifications?

bh4-tech that’s good to know, thank you!

D1re_W0lf mmm it should work but we don’t have Apple devices to test against…

rwg@aoir.social I’m not actually sure! You’ll have to ask reiver@mastodon.social about that one.

Let me know too!

Hoping to attend FediCon this year! It’s fantastic that it’s in Canada, which makes it much more convenient for the North American crowd than FOSDEM.

I usually do some pretty technical topics, but would something more high level be better?

Earlier this year I presented a talk on a way to fix the “quiet fedi” problem. Maybe I’ll fix federated private group chats this time around

The Fediverse is Quiet — Let's Fix That!

There are a number of "hard problems" facing ActivityPub development today. One of which is the oft-repeated refrain that "the fediverse is quiet". This is most often experienced when any given con...

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There have been some scattered feedback on a change I made for v4.0.0 that caught some people off-guard: Uploaded media is now shown in addition to topic thumbnails.

I’ll start with why this change was made, and then solicit feedback.

The why

v4.0.0 introduced ActivityPub integration into NodeBB. This added dimension meant that content was consumed in a manner that was similar, but unfamiliar to NodeBB, and so much of the work involved normalizing that data into a format that made sense. (As an aside, I tell people that that’s pretty much 99% of my job — glueing together APIs. I jest, but it’s also basically true.)

One of those unfamiliar aspects was uploaded media in the form of attachments. NodeBB had discrete concepts of inline media and topic thumbnails, but attachments were something different entirely. Attachments were not inlined in the text (they tended to be added before or after the main content), and thumbnails were images only, while attachments could be lots of other things.

The second part was that a lot of the content I received relied on media to do the heavy lifting. Oftentimes the text would be minimal and in response to the attachment. After all, a picture’s worth a thousand words.

Given those two things, I allowed NodeBB to consume and store attachments separately, and updated the topic thumbnail retrieval logic to pull media from both post attachments and inline media. That retrieval logic is what governs what you see next to the title. I also decided on the all-in approach because while NodeBB has multiple ways of slotting media, majority of ActivityPub software generally only uses attachments. This means both inline media and topic thumbnails were unceremoniously shoved into attachments when federating outward. There is movement toward changing this, and so this rationale may no longer make sense today.

I initially did have concerns that perhaps this would dilute the meaning and specificity of the “topic thumbnail”, but I also wagered that the UX improvement of promoting any and all media found would be of greater benefit.

Your turn — feedback!

Maybe I’m wrong!

• Perhaps the media row is best used to showcase topic thumbnails and post attachments only (not inlined media.)
• Perhaps a configurable option would appease all folks (although I’m usually loathe to add options purely for that reason.)

@AltCode ackchyually… it opens in the same tab for me.

… because there’s a user setting for it I’ll update it to respect that user setting.

@AltCode you can middle click it

@eeeee if you have successfully followed the Lemmy community, then any new topics they share will be shown in the “Shares” page of their profile.

It’s less-than-ideal, so I am refactoring that entire system now so that you will be able to “browse” that community like a regular NodeBB category.

Ability to browse remote categories · Issue #13255 · NodeBB/NodeBB

Description Currently, NodeBB processes the main actor types (Application, Group, Organization, Person, and Service) into "remote users", who can be followed and whose content appear in /world. A non-insignificant part of the open social...

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As for the follow issue, try cancelling the follow, waiting perhaps a minute, and then following again, then wait a minute, and then refresh the page

@CWSmith You can search for a user either via the search bar or in the /users page. Just paste in their handle (e.g. @julian@community.nodebb.org.) The follow button is then in their profile much like following a local user on NodeBB.

@eeeee are you running v4.2.0? I wasn’t seeing that here, so I assumed it was a regression that was fixed.

@2TonWaffle ah, nah, it means that prior to this release, posts from Ghost didn’t come in properly and were dropped. Now they work:

e.g. https://community.nodebb.org/post/https%3A%2F%2Factivitypub.ghost.org%2F.ghost%2Factivitypub%2Farticle%2Ffa21e00d-d112-4d79-b6c6-932134d57f30

@Kichae you can thank @panos@catodon.social for that one! ️

@mario@hub.somaton.com I have yet to test Hubzilla updates with the payload example you sent. I have not forgotten! The topic is sitting unread in my NodeBB inbox for over a week now

Hello all

Today we’re releasing NodeBB v4.2.0. Most of the changes pertain to minor updates to our existing ActivityPub integration.

• Categories can now follow regular users
  • v4 launched with the ability for NodeBB to synchronize categories with other “group” type remote accounts. While it was possible to follow regular users, their content did not properly load into the category. This has now been fixed.
• Actual handling (not just pretend ) of content from Ghost
• Added button to view original profile of remote users
• Better handling of content for remote chat messages (non-public notes)
• Forking and moving posts between topics now announced by the category
• Separate chat message length cutoff for remote messages
• Improved link handling on remote content
• Categories now have a handle in the description; added an additional setting for a remote-only addendum for local categories

The “View Original” button for user profiles is located in the sidebar of any remote user profile:

Pankaj-Soni yes and no… the enabling of the push notifications requires a discrete user action — the user has to actually press the switch to enable notifications.

There are ways we can advertise this to end users, so I will look into adding those soon. For now, users will have to go into their user settings to enable push notifications.

phenomlab curious, was it also blocking push notifications from this site as well?

phenomlab said in Native Push Notifications Support for NodeBB: > NordVPN

Thanks for closing the loop! Kind of annoying that NordVPN blocks them…

phenomlab Right now